Weiss Kreuz Fan Fiction ❯ In The Shadows, In The Light ❯ Interlude 3 ( Chapter 6 )

Author's Notes: All Weiss Kreutz stuff/characters are not owned by me and all rights apply to the lucky bastards who do own them. I took these boys out to play and let them frolic like they really wanted to `cause that's the kinda sick and twisted little puppy I am. The song snippet is by Enigma and all rights apply to them.

 

Thanks goes to Race for beta-ing this for me. You are a doll.

 

Thanks also goes to kuyashinaki for providing me with the German phrases. Any spelling/grammar mistakes are completely mine.

 

~ indicates character POV

** indicates internal conversation.

 

 

Interlude 3

 

In The Shadow, In The Light - Enigma from the album `Voyageur'

 

I promise you, for all my life
I'll be always by your side
In the shadow, in the light.

 

 

~Schuldig~

 

I needed to know what had happened between Aya, Yohji and me. It was more than just Aya's rage, which was a surprisingly strong, malevolent thing. It was more than just the link that I had forged between us. I knew Talent when it punched me between the eyes. It wasn't mine so it had to be either Aya or Yohji.

 

Aya had no Talent. I'd been in his mind twice. It was an act more intimate than all the times I had been buried in his ass or he in mine. I knew things about Aya that nobody else did including Aya himself. There wasn't even a whisper of a gift in him. He had incredible mental focus but thankfully no gift to utilize that focus. It was possible that he could have given me a run for my money if he had had a Talent.

 

Yohji had a small Talent, I had noticed it that first night we had been together. I had never pursued it. Truthfully, I had forgotten about it. Before I left, I let my mind ghost through Yohji's just to check. I winced at the bruised and battered feel and tried to make my touch even lighter than it already was. My poor Vergnügen had been badly mauled by the fury of my Schärfe. Even so, it didn't take me long to figure out what Talent Yohji possessed.

 

He had just the barest of empathic abilities. He probably thought of them as gut feelings. Yohji moaned softly in his sleep as I prodded at this latent Talent of his and I withdrew reluctantly from his mind. I felt my head spin pleasantly for a moment from just that brief little swim in his brain. One of these times I was going to really step into his head like I had already done with Aya. Being inside Aya's head had been as good as sex and lust surged through me at the idea of being inside Yohji's head the same way.

 

I headed straight to Brad's office when I got home. I didn't want to talk to him about this but I had nowhere else to turn. Even though it was still early morning, I knew Brad would be up, so I didn't bother to knock. I sauntered in, picked the best chair and dropped into it. Brad looked at me over the tops of glasses in annoyance.

 

“And to what pleasure do I owe your presence so early in the day? I'm assuming you're just getting home from a night out partying and screwing your brains out.”

 

“Jealous Brad? Sorry, I won't share even if you did swing that way. They're all mine,” I said with a thread of possessiveness that I just couldn't keep from my voice. I looked away. “I need help and you're the only one that I can think of.”

 

“How much and when do you have to appear in court?” Brad sighed as he removed his glasses.

 

“I didn't do anything…this time,” I offered un-offended. I had come to Brad before like this and it had involved a tidy sum of cash and a court appearance. I swear that chick said she was legal and she had looked it.

 

“If not money or character reference, then what do you need?”

 

“Information. Something happened earlier this morning and I don't know how it happened. I need to know so it doesn't happen again.” I fiddled with some paperclips from Brad's desk. “I think it would be very bad if it happens again.”

 

“You haven't narrowed it down much. Spill it, Schu.” Brad leaned back in his chair prepared to listen to me tell my story.

 

“You know that I'm sleeping with somebody,” I began. When Brad nodded, I continued. “I'm actually sleeping with two people at the same time. And I do mean at the same time,” I waited for Brad's surprise. When it didn't come and he only motioned for me to continue, I was startled and a little unsettled. I would have been shocked if Brad had told me he was sleeping with two people at the same time. Actually, I would have been startled to find out Brad was sleeping with anyone. In my opinion, he spent way too much time with spreadsheets and not enough time spread out between the sheets.

 

“One of my lovers didn't want his friends to find out we were sleeping together. He's a little repressed. Two of his friends walked in on us and found out. This totally pissed off my lover who blamed me and my other lover for it even though it was an accident.”

 

“You want my help in getting back into your lovers good graces?” Brad asked with a straight face.

 

“Nein. I'm not done,” I snapped. If I didn't know better, I would swear that he was having fun yanking my chain. But that was crazy. Brad didn't do shit like that. “I created a mental link with my lovers. The sex is just so much better that way.”

 

Brad sighed and rolled his eyes.

 

“The anger and betrayal that my lover felt flowed down that link to me and my other lover. It was far stronger than it should have been. He has no Talent, thank God, or he'd really be dangerous. My other lover has a very minor empathic Talent. I doubt he even knows he has it.”

 

“This lover of yours, maybe he just has a lot of rage in him. It could be that you've never pissed him off to such an extent before, although I find that hard to believe.”

 

I scowled at Brad. I didn't need the side commentary; I was trying to be serious here. I didn't want Yohji or Aya hurt anymore. I had to know how to stop that from happening again.

 

“He is a pissy bitch but he would never hurt our other lover on purpose like he did this morning. Once he calms down and realizes what he did, he's going to wallow in the guilt.” I threw the paperclip chain onto Crawford's desk and jumped to my feet to pace his office. “I can't let it happen again, Brad. No one hurts my Vergnügen und Schärfe except on those nights when we feel extra kinky.”

 

“I didn't need to know that, Schu. In fact, I'd rather not know anything about that. Give me some specifics on the incident. Is there anything else that you have noticed happening when you're with… Vergnügen und Schärfe?”

 

Without telling Brad their names, I explained about the ease of establishing our mental link now and the lack of shields when I woke up this morning yet not hearing any other voices. I told him of Yohji throwing up and his sudden weakness compared to Aya's strength. I told him of my mental strain until Aya had left and the sudden surge of well being I had experienced as Yohji had just as suddenly weakened again. I even told him of how I noticed an increase in my own mental skill for a brief moment when I had dismissed his friends.

 

“Fascinating. You're sure that this other lover of yours has only an empathic Talent?” Brad sat back, considering all I had told him.

 

“I couldn't really probe too deeply. His mind was too bruised. I didn't want to hurt him further. I haven't been in his head yet like I have with my other lover. I want him alone, stone cold sober and aware of what he's doing when he gives that virginity to me.”

 

Brad gave me a considering look at that comment, but I was off daydreaming about getting Yohji's mental cherry. Sure we had shared thoughts and feelings but nothing like what I had done with Aya. There was something about Yohji that had kept me from going into his head like I had with Aya. God knows I had tried. Gave myself a splitting headache and damn near a nosebleed as well. Whatever was going on with Yohji's head was what was keeping me from fully entering it.

 

 

~Brad~

 

Schuldig was in deep. That he cared about hurting either Abyssinian or Balinese told me just how much. Typically, Schuldig didn't give a moment's thought to who he hurt mentally or physically as long as he got what he was after.

 

There was also the fact that he had come to me for information. Schuldig had been very careful not to mention names but he must have been worried to even approach me.

 

“I'm afraid that there really isn't much I can tell you Schuldig. I can't recall hearing of this kind of thing before. I'll try to find out what I can for you.”

 

Schuldig sighed in frustration and dragged a hand through his hair before he headed for the door. He paused with his hand on the knob. “No Esset. I don't trust those fuckers. You call them and I will make mince meat of your brain.”

 

“I don't trust Esset any more than you; probably even less. Speaking of which, try to maintain a low profile. I don't want us popping up on whatever may be left of Esset's radar.”

 

Schuldig closed his eyes briefly before giving me a cocky smile. “Good. I'm enjoying myself with my new toys and I'd hate to have to leave them.”

 

I waited until Schuldig was almost out of my office before speaking again. “I'm sure it would upset Kudoh and Fujimiya to lose you as well.”

 

Schuldig whirled and stared at me in shock. I watched the colour drain from his face before a flush of anger burned across his cheeks. I had already tightened up my mental defences but I was still shocked with the force of the tightly leashed anger he sent my way. He hadn't been kidding when he said he felt like he had gotten a power boost.

 

“Payback is a bitch, Schu,” I reminded him mildly. “Don't fuck with my memories or visions again. I always find out when you do.” I returned my interest to the paperwork before me, dismissing him.

 

Schuldig glared at me with Fujimiya level intensity before slamming the door behind him and, I assumed, heading for his room. I closed my eyes and sighed heavily. I would help Schuldig find out more about this little turn of events. Not just because I wanted us to be friends again but because this boost in mental powers could prove useful in keeping us out of Esset's grasp. Keeping my family free of Esset was my top priority.

 

It was just a nice bonus for Schuldig that his new lovers would also benefit from this information.